Paddington 2 (2017)

The safest opener here, because almost nobody comes out the other side unmoved. A polite bear in a duffel coat takes odd jobs to buy his aunt a present, and every mishap is built with the precision of silent-movie slapstick, so the laughs land for adults first and kids second. Don't let "kids' movie" put a skeptic off. In early 2018 it overtook Toy Story 2 as the best-reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes, with a perfect score at the time, and it runs a breezy 103 minutes. You don't need to have seen the first Paddington.